Frăn’tic, a.
a. [For frantic, phrenic, contracted from frenetic, phrenetic, q. v. Cf. FRENZY.]
Sense 1. Mad; raving; furious; outrageous; wild and disorderly; distracted;—said of persons.
Die, frantic wretch, for this accursed deed. Shak.
Sense 2. Characterized by violence, fury, and disorder; noisy; wild; irregular;—said of things. “Torrents of frantic abuse.” Macaulay.